Improved washing-machine



l with less labor than in other machines.

JOHN L. SOHOONMAKER, OF GALUPVILLE, NEV

YORK.

IMPROVED WASHlNG-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,173, dated August 12, 11362.

To Z when?, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN L. SoHooNMAKER, of Galupville, in the county of Schoharie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the construction of iVashing-iaohines, by means of which the clothes are more thoroughly acted upon and The peculiarity of construction inl the following specification will be clearly set forth.

The nature of Iny invention consists in applying to the convex rubber of a washingnxachine a weight snilicient to prevent it from -rising up and floating, a difficulty heretofore found in other machines, which had to beobviated by pressing down, besides moving fro m side to side at the saine time. The weight is situated above the cross-bar, and is connected to the convex rubber by means of rods placed one on each side of the same, and sliding freely through `holes in the crossbar for that purpose. A counterbalanceweight is also placed at one end of the convex rubber, and is inclosed within a wooden cross-piece to pre serve it from contact with the Water. The handle for working the convex rubber is secured to the other end. The object in using the counter-balance is to keep that end down, thereby rubbing the clothes which gather at that end at every vibration more thoroughly than when the said convex rubber is light, and causing the machine to work easier by avoiding the necessity of exerting a great amount of pressure to keep it down, which is obviated by the weight applied, the only labor or force required being to swing said rubber by means of the handle from side to side. It rises n and down, accordi ng to the quantity of clothes in the tub, in the usual manner. At one end of the concave bottom of the tub a checkpiece is placed, against which the clothes which accumulate at each stroke are fulled by being rubbed between the counterbalance weight and said check-piece. I have tested my improvement, and find it possesses the advantages speeied. v

Having thus set forth the nature of my iniprovement, and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it,and certify that the accompanying drawings are a full and correct representation of the sanne, like letters corresponding with like parts.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section of a washingmachine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan ofthe same.

A, Figs. l, 2, and 3, represents the ordinary concave-bottom washing-tub, supported by legs a a a u. B B are uprights orside pieces, one on each side of the same. O is a 'cross bar provided with a journal at each end, which Works in a slot in each upright or sidepiece B B.

D is the convex rubber, provided with the usual ribs on the face of same.

E E are round rods which slide through holes in the cross-bar O, and they have a forked piece on each lower end to connect to the sides of the convex rubber D.

F is a weight attached to the upper ends of the rods E E above the crossbar C.

G G are side pieces, secured one to each side of the convex rubber D, and HA is the handle 'connected to them for working the same.

K is the cross-stay at the end opposite the handle H, inclosed in which is a weight, L,

forming a counter-balance for the handle H.

M is the check-piece situated at one end of the tub A, and against which the clothes accumulate and are rubbed and fulled by the loaded end of the convex rubber D.

I clain1- Y The application ofthe weight F to the oonvex rubber D, in combination with the counn terbalance-weight L, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

y JOHN L. soHooNMAKER. Witnesses:

LUoIUs Grens, LYMAN BAKER. 

